Saturday, March 7, 2009

a wall and a walk

well, now i've gone and done it. i was hanging up 'march' from jess gonacha's beautiful 2009 calendar and decided that i wanted to see everything all at once, so i collaged one of my kitchen walls with her calendar patterns and a few of her prints. and i love it. i have a weakness for collaging walls. it started with my grandmother, who went into one of her 'garbage moods' back in the seventies and decoupaged her entire front hallway in paperback covers from psychology books. (lots of other stories to tell there, as you can imagine.) so since then i've covered walls and bulletin boards with my postcards, letters, pictures, and other memories in nearly every place i've lived. last week i saw an ultracool patchwork patterned wall on ninainvorm (it's on the right sidebar, close to the bottom) and i think that's what prompted me to start cutting up jess's fabulous prints.

with that out of my system, this morning artsygirl and i went exploring, journaling, window shopping, and got our chocolate fix at au marché (a chocolate bunny for her and nutella for me). now i've been roped into a game of trouble and after that i'm going to start two projects - one involves a chair and the other lots of patterns. by the way, i totally enjoyed the commentary on the marshmallow peeps - that topic appears to be even more divisive than politics!

29 comments:

Oh WOW! Your wall looks as glorious and chic as any paperie store in SoHo. Gorgeous colors and patterns! Fantastic idea. And I love artsygirl's happy skirt and drawing. Wonder what's going on there? And what's with your town and halves???

Your wall looks great - I love it!! I'm sure Jess will love it, too!! I saved some of Jack's early, early fingerpainting (where all the colors got watery and blended into a pretty plum color) - thinking one day, I would copy one design and collage it in a repeat on a wall....here we are 10 years later.....still in a box.

your wall looks mighty fine and i love all the color you're showing us today. i'd love to hear more about your grandmother's wall, too. we saw bees yesterday ... spring is on the way. hope it will stay for a while. hope you're having a good weekend.

LOVE LOVE LOVE your supercool wall! The colors, patterns ACK! I wanna touch it! LOL! Oh, and I think that pic of the bright colored skirt with pants and sparkly shoes is brilliant! Is that of someone you know? Great visuals.Linda

i love your kitchen wall! its gorgeous- it makes me wonder how the rest of your house looks and i love artsygirls shoes (am a shoe girl)!looks like you come from generations of talented artistic women and also like you rearing the next one ;)hope you had a great weekend, wish i could have gone with you and artygirl for that walkxo

That wall looks amazing! I also love the idea of the psychology book covers papering your granma's wall (she must have been a very interesting woman!) Now there is an idea - I am going to use all 730 pages of that revolting psychology textbook I've just finished proofreading to paper mine. Not..!! Well, I liked this super-insane project - keep them coming!